Hearing Loss Clinical Trials

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Researchers at the University of Kentucky are inviting you to participate in a study about hearing loss and cognitive function in elderly individuals. This study involves cognitive testing performed on an iPad, a hearing handicap screen, and a geriatric depression screen. You will be asked to come to 4 separate ...

This study will look at which kinds of speech recognition training will benefit children the most, using computerized games. Participants will complete 16 training hours at Washington University plus 4 assessments lasting 1.5 – 2.5 hours each. Up to $260 is provided for time and effort (IRB # 201602007).  

To determine if treatment of cCMV-infected hearing impaired infants with isolated hearing loss with the antiviral drug valganciclovir reduces the maximum worsening in left or right ear hearing 8 months after randomization compared to untreated cCMV-infected hearing impaired infants  

Background Wolfram syndrome (OMIM #222300) is an autosomal recessive disorder characterized by insulin dependent diabetes mellitus (DM) in the first decade of life, followed by optic atrophy (OA), blindness, and deafness. Death from widespread neurodegeneration occurs in the third or fourth decades. Postmortem studies revealed a non-autoimmune loss of pancreatic ...

Sudden sensorineural hearing loss (SSNHL) affects approximately 5 to 20 per 100,000 persons with spontaneous recovery seen in 32% to 65%. Many different treatments have been investigated in attempt to improve hearing outcomes, with oral corticosteroids having some success. Steroid regimens are highly variable, however, retrospective data has suggested greater ...

In 1985, the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved multichannel cochlear implants (CIs) for adults with profound hearing loss; and in 1990, implantation was approved for children. Since then, this procedure has become the standard of care for patients with severe-to-profound sensorineural hearing loss. Successful outcomes are dependent ...

This study aims to explore if objective brain responses to speech stimuli (words and running speech) can be used to evaluate hearing aid fitting in adults. Objective brain responses would be beneficial, as they could be used to evaluate hearing with people who are incapable or unwilling to provide subjective ...

Parents of children who fail infant hearing screening at birth at the University of Kentucky or other hospitals in the area that are receiving follow up diagnostic testing at UK Audiology or the Commission for Children with Special Health Care Needs will be enrolled in the first part of the ...

After cochlear implantation, cochlear nerve is stimulated by giving a current over the electrodes placed in the cochlea and the current is measured by electrically evoked Compound Action Potential (ECAP).This ECAP is measured intra operatively, 4 weeks(at switch on) and after 3months and 6 months following cochlear implantation. Neural Response ...